[AmericanVictory]

Well, exactly, that's part of the price we paid for LBJ's cowardice in not taking out North Vietnam at the outset, when the Joint Chiefs urged him to do so, and for Kennedy's choice of Westmoreland because "he looked like a general." The deaths of so many uselessly are attributable to his infatuation with McNamara and the Bundies. But Abrams was brilliant as a boots on the ground general and we had the thing won but we lost on logistics and public relations in the end, even with all the mistakes you mention.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well, I have to agree overwhelmingly with your restrospective analysis.

The key (as it always is for us Americans) is not to make the same g-d mistake overseas in some unforsaken, confusing place. It's our young people who have to pay the price, and their grieving families and friends on the other side, too.